Do I have colon cancer?
I’ve been having slightly norrower than normal crap for the last couple days. Do I have colon cancer?
Abdominal distension: Nope
Abdominal pain: Nope
Unexplained, persistent nausea or vomiting: Nope
Unexplained weight loss: Nope
Change in frequency or character of stool (bowel movements): Yep
Small-caliber (narrow) or ribbon-like stools: Yep
Sensation of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement: Nope
Age. About 90 percent of people diagnosed with colon cancer are older than 50: I’m 21.
Colorectal polyps cancer or polyps: Not that I know of.
Intestinal obstruction repair conditions: Nope
Inherited disorders that affect the colon: I might have hemmorides, thouh it usually doesn’t cause a problem for me. Basiclly it’s not active most of the time.
Family history of colon cancer and colon polyps: Only my grandma, nobody else even polyps.
Diet. Colon cancer and rectal cancer may be associated with a diet low in fiber and high in fat and calories: Probably
A sedentary lifestyle: Yeah, but do try to get at least a little bit of exercise each day.
Diabetes: Nope
Obesity: I’m only 145 pounds
Smoking. I don’t smoke
Alcohol: I don’t drink
Growth hormone disorder: I don’t think so.
Radiation therapy for cancer: I’ve never had cancer or anyone in my family except for my grandma who was a smoker.
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Denisedds (88)
Go to a clinic and get a digital exam. They’ll check for polyps and tell you if you should get a colonoscopy. If you don’t have health insurance, the digital exam isn’t terribly expensive, I had one for $60 (the city paid the other $60 because I was employed full time there).
You’re probably ok. If your grandmother had colon cancer, then you should start getting checked regularly at the age she had it minus ten years.
Thousands of people die of colon cancer a year. Please don’t check into a website and seek a medical diagnosis over something so serious as suspicions of cancer. Please DO get to a doctor.
(I have had some of the same symptoms and others of colon cancer that your checklist mentions. I have irritable bowel as it turns out. You might too. Whatever you find out, I guarantee you that no one should trust a cancer diagnosis to a website.)
go get a doc.